Naruto Jade Beast of Konoha

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Epilogue

Naruto looked around and all he could see was darkness, he wondered if he was alive or dead. He knew that his attack on Sasuke with the injuries he had already had would more than likely kill him. He just never thought that the afterlife would be so bland. It was going to be pretty boring if this was everything to it. Naruto slowly noticed another figure, the Anbu who had helped him so much in his preparation for the Chuunin exam. Naruto wondered why he saw the masked warrior.

"Hmm…Naruto, I am impressed, very impressed," Anbu announce, "You have taken the second big step on the path to changing this land. "

"What do you mean, what was the first big step," Naruto asked confused, "How many steps are there."

"Well, the first step was Gaara, and the number of steps, I don't know, peace can be hard to find in this world of war."

"So, if you telling me this, I am not dead right?"

"Of course your not dead, you have far to much to do in your life."

'Um, what do you mean."

"Naruto, the path you have in one of the most important ones in a long time. It will determine the fate of many things, maybe even help save this world from its own future. That however is only up to you."

Naruto was wondering what he meant, when he suddenly noticed a group of men wearing cloaks with red clouds on them, and a monster standing behind them so unreal Naruto could not put a name to it.

"They are the ones, who may control the future without you and others actions."

Naruto was in a village, one which was covered in flames, Naruto searched actively for anything that he was there to find, but turning a corner he looked up to see a pile of dead bodies among the pile were everyone he knew and cared about.

"Naruto, as much as it may seemed that things are going well, these last invents are only the opening act in the Naruto Uzumaki story, a hard story, which one must be extremely strong of mind to read. To be honest, I don't think that you will be able to follow the path to avoid these events."

"What, I will never let that happen no matter what, you have my word on that," Naruto said giving the good guy pose.

"Good, keep that spirit, and remember while your path will be hard, you have friends which will be there to help you along your way, just like in the last mission," the ANBU said before slowly starting to disappear, "Naruto, it is time to wake up."

Naruto quickly opened his eyes and looked around, he was in the hospital in Konoha, all he had seen was nothing but a dream, and yet Naruto knew the dream was somehow a real warning for him.

"So you decided to wake up did you," a voice said getting his attention.

"Hey Shikamaru seems that you got through the mission ok."

"Yeah, just this finger," Shikamaru said showing his broken finger.

"How are the others doing?"

"Hinata, Lee and Gai are all fine no real injuries to worry about. Neji and Tenten are doing ok now, both were pretty heavily injured but they will be fine with some rest. "

"And Sasuke?"

"I don't know, I have not heard what they did with him since they brought him back from the mission. You were the worst of anyone, We didn't know if you would be able to make it. If Sarutobi had not done what he did, you would not be alive."

"What did he do?"

"He somehow managed to talk both Lady Tsunade, and Jiraiya to come back to the village. It could not of been a easy task, but the old man did it somehow."

"Wow I missed a lot, how long was I out?"

"Three days, Naruto, and you missed even more. It seems Sarutobi some how, god only know how, managed to get Jiraya take the title of Hokage from him."

"How long I am going to be here out of commission like this?"

"Well, if I were to guess I would say another week, but then again you were not supposed to be awake for another two days. You should of seen yourself when you got here."

"Shikamaru, I can't stay here that long."

"Why, we don't have any pressing dangers or concerns right now."

"Yeah, but something is coming, something very dangerous is coming, and I don't think we are even close to being ready to deal with it. I have to make sure I am sure I am strong enough to deal with this new danger."

"Well, I am sure you will have time to deal with that in the days to come, but you if you push yourself you will just end up doing more harm than good," Shikamaru said looking the cloak, "Well, I have a team get together to go to. I will check in with you later."

"Thanks Shikamaru," Naruto said weakly waving toward Shikamaru who waved back before he left the room.

Shikamaru sighed closing the door, the mission was a success and he was praised by all of the leaders of the town. Yet, he knew it was nothing but luck, if Gai had not shown up, and if other didn't rescue his down friends, he could be the laughing stock of the town. He should of never won against the odds he knew he knew now that he had face. It could be nothing but his teams luck, and only somewhat skill that had won the day. He did understand what Naruto meant by a new danger, but he did know that he had to get stronger to be a better leaders so that the next it would not be luck which won the day. Shikamaru left quietly as he thought about what Naruto could possibly mean by a new threat.

At the same time, Jiraiya took a long deep breath, he had to be responsible now. He was the 5th Hokage, and he would have to live up to the name. He had not wanted the job, and even begged both Tsunade, and his old sensei about it, but they had their way, and he knew they were right. He stood thinking of his own past, his best student, and that students son. Jiraiya knew that it was only a matter of time before Naruto became Hokage after him. Jiraiya also thought of his teacher who was still around, Sarutobi sensei said he would go and spend his time working with the youth, and especially one dark haired young Sarutobi grandson of his. Jiraiya looked at a group of papers about missions to authorized. In the middle of the papers was one from his own spy agency. Jiraiya picked it up, and read it, it was something about the rain village and a group calling themselves Akatsuki. Jiraiya wondered who this new group was and what their plans, goals and ambitions were.

A/N- I hope that you like this. Thanks for reading this story, everyone, I never thought this story would have 250+reviews, 200+story favs,300+story alerts, and 95000+hits. I am unsure if I will do a sequel to this or not. I have some ideas, which are based mainly around the mystery ANBU and Akatsuki. Still, I am unsure if I will, give your feelings on this in your review if you do not mind. Thanks again for reading this story.